The Metropolitan Opera: Salome

Strauss’s Salome (new production)
2024–25 The Met: Live in HD
This performance has no interval.

Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium on May 17 to conduct Strauss’s one-act tragedy, which will be transmitted live from the Metropolitan Opera stage to cinemas worldwide. Leading the company’s first new production of the work in 20 years, Claus Guth, one of Europe’s leading opera directors, gives the biblical story a psychologically perceptive Victorian-era setting. South African soprano Elza van den Heever leads a celebrated cast as the
abused and unhinged antiheroine, with Swedish baritone Peter Mattei as the imprisoned prophet Jochanaan; German tenor Gerhard Siegel as Salome’s lecherous stepfather, King Herod; American mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung as his wife, Herodias; and Polish tenor Piotr Buszewski as Narraboth.

Live in HD: May 17, 2025
Production: Claus Guth
Set Designer: Etienne Pluss
Costume Designer: Ursula Kudrna
Lighting Designer: Olaf Freese
Projection Designer: rocafilm/Roland Horvath
Choreographer: Sommer Ulrickson
Dramaturg: Yvonne Gebauer

Yannick Nézet-Séguin (Conductor), Elza van den Heever (Salome), Michelle
DeYoung (Herodias), Gerhard Siegel (Herod), Piotr Buszewski (Narraboth), Peter
Mattei (Jochanaan)